The Sun. — London, England, 1836-09-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL. tions of imagination,, of gossip, or of malice, who are reported to have censured so freely on 'Change the proceedings of the Bank Direction, would have availed themselves of the opportunity, which the meeting of yes terday afforded, t o g i ve pu bli c express i o n to their opi nions in the presence of the body whose conduct they are said to have impeached. The public will understand on all future occasions of the same kind how little value is to be attached to the language of nameless members of the mer cantile body, however intelligent, or however important, they may be described by those who quote them in corro boration of their own opinions or prejudices. It was very properly and forcibly urged by some members of the Court, at the meeting to which we refer, that the periodical pub lication, %required by law of the circulation, liabilities, and assets of the Bank of England, can afford no information whatever as to the actual state of the currency until similar returns of the transactions and affairs of joint-stock and other private banks be also supplied. It is manifestly quite fair, and would certainly be useful, that such returns be required. Their utility would be greatly increased, how ever, if they were to pass through the hands of a compe tent public officer, charged with the duty of arrangement and condensation, and with that of abstractinc , from the whole mass in some specified, invariable, and intelligibl e form definite and instructive results.—Monzing Post. The Morning Post has discovered a mare's nest in our I observations with respect to the Tory party. W e a r e n ot aware that any one ever disputed that the great body of the English gentry were Tories. In the House of Peers the Tories have numbers on their side, and the Whigs pro perty ; for though there are several exceptions, yet the greatest landholders are generally Whigs. We have more than once stated that we could name a dozen of Whig noblemen who possess an income equal to all the rest of the House of Lords. The class of gentry who cannot keep their standing without quartering their son s on the public purse are for obvious "reasons Tories, and foes to retrenchment. The more rich, who are inde pendent of the public purse, and the great mass of owners of real and personal property, who d o no t l oo k to the public purse for provisions to their children, are Whigs and Reformers. In the county of B erw i c k , f or in stance, a rich agricultural district, Mr. Ch ar l es M a j or ib an k s was returned ; though, with two or th ree except i ons at most, all the gentry with more than 500/. a year supported his opponent. The clergy are necessarily bound up with the Tory system of profusion, and go along with the gentry as a matter of course. But when we consider how small a share of the property of this great country is pos sessed by the class of gentry abov e d escr ib e d , i t i s prepos terous to consider them identified w ith proper t y i n genera l. That class has interests at variance with those of the mass of owners of property. It has a factitious importance in the country. Why the interests of the industrious population should be s acr ificed to the drones it - would lie difficult to explain on any equitable principle. The Go vernment of Lord M e lb ourne, as was a d m i tte d b y him self, has against it a ma j or ity o f th e H ouse o f Lords, and a majority of the gentry ; bUt in return it haS the confidence o f t h e great b o d y o f t h e peop l e, o f t h ose w h o live by their industry and ingenuity, and have a stronger interest in good government than in the corrupt adminis tration of the public resources. With such support Lord Melbourne's Government has only, in order to be successful, to show to the people an earnest determination to set cor rupt interests at defiance, to endeavour honestly to remove We arc very sorry to have to inform nearly all our Con temporaries, Morning and Evening, of the Metropolis, that they have got themselves into what the Americans would call " a pretty considerable tarnation mess." With the exception of the Standard, and the Post, they have subjected them selveS to a penalty of twenty pounds for every paper they published yesterday. Of course, they know, as every body knows, that it is quite impossible the Whigs can pass any measure which does not contain some grossly absurd enact ment, or some wretchedly stupid blunder. The public have seriously and severely felt that the Whigs can never draw up any measure which does not inflict, over and above the natural results of each of their measures, useless labour or useless 'expense on that portion of the community to which the measure more immediately applies. This Newspaper Stamp Duties Act furnishes a capital illustration of this le gislative: squint and wry-neckedness of the Whigs. The fourteenth clause of the Act requires, under penalty of twenty pOtinds for each offence, that the day of the week, month, and year on which the paper is published, shall be printed at the end of every paper. This is equivalent to an enactment that -" the day of the week, month, and year," shall be printed three times in every paper ; for the Whigs must hate seen that " the day of the week," &c., were already printed at the head of each paper, and ,over the first of the leading articles in each paper. Let us, however, give this delectable specimen of dunderheadism entire : all recognised abuses, all obstacles to good government. He • has against him only those who were against the Reform Bill, and who only oppose him because he wishes that that Bill should not remain a dead letter.—Morning Chronicle. The Conservatives have always possessed a remarkable genius for invention. It has- been our lot to notice, from time to time, some striking instances of what they are ca pable of in this way. They seem still determined not to let their inventive faculties sleep. It was only yesterday that one of their organs boldly affirmed that the Reformers themselves at last amit, though of course with great reluc tance, that all the intelligence, and property, and respecta bility of the country, are enlisted on the side of the Tories. The Conservatives have said as much of themselves a thou- • sand times over—but this is the first time, so far as we re collect, that they have represented the Reformers as making the admission. What Reformer of weight or influence has, we should like to know, ever employed language which even Tory ingenuity could, with any plausibility, torture into an admission of this kind. We know of no such instance— we arc satisfied that. no such instance exists except in the inventive faculties of the Tory journals to which we have alluded. But even were it sograntino-, for argument sake, that some Reformer of distinction had been foolish enough to employ language on some occasion which would justify ,the admission which our Tory contemporary, represents as having been made—still we hold that it would amount to nothing. The Reformers as a body are not to be made responsible for the follies or indiscre tions of any one or more of their number. The language which one may be stupid enough to use is not to be put into the mouths of all. The question is not what one,or two may say, but what is the fact of the case. We main tain, then, that the great preponderance of the intelligence of the country is enlisted• on the side of Reform ; and we affirm with equal confidence that there is a considerable preponderance of the property of the country also. We admit, indeed, that there may be a greater number of per sons possessing incomes of upwards of 1,0001.. a year among the Conservatives than there is among 'the Refor mers, but that is not the way to decide the question. The only fair way of doing so is to take the property of the country in the aggregate, and'then see whether the greater portion of it be possessed by the Tories or the Reformers. If in such a case, it would be found, as we have just said, ,that there is a greater number of Tories with incomes ex ceeding 1,0001. a year than there is of Reformers having th e same amount of income, it would be found that for one Tory with an income of less than 2001. a year, there are twenty %Antlers ; and that for one Tory with an income under 100/. ncr annum, there are at least fifty Reformers. —Morning 'Advertiser. The Globe, the Morning Chronicle, and a correspon dent in the Chronicle, have come forward to reply to an artiel.e ofours,depre.mting the granting of a British passport to M. Isturiz by Mr. Villiers, our Minister at Madrid. They conjointly accuse Us of not " being able to see the difference between interfering to save a man from a mob, and interfering' to save him from course . of law ;" and they " And be it enacted, that at the end of every newspaper, and of any and every supplement sheet or piece of paper, shall be printed the ehristian name and surname, addition, and place of abode, of the printer and publisher of the same, and also a true description of the house or building wherein the same is actually printed and published respectively, and the day of the week, month, and year on which the same is published ; and if any person shall knowingly and wilfully print or publish, or cause to be printed or published, any newspaper or supplement thereto, whereon the several particulars aforesaid shall not be Printed, or whereon.tbere shall be printed any false name, addition, place, or day,' or whereon there shall be printed any description of the place of printing or publishing such news paper which shall bp different in any respect from the descrip tion of the house or building mentioned in the declaration re quired by this act to be made relating to such newspaper as the hous6 or building wherein•such newspaper is intended to be printed or published, every such person shall for any and every such offence forfeit the sum of 201." Now all the papers, as well morning and evening, that we have been able. to procure, have, with the exception of the two mentioned above and our own, violated this clause, and incurred for each copy published yesterday, a penalty of 201. As common informers cannot sue for this pe nalty, as the authorities of the Stamp-office alone can pro ceed, we hope our contemporaries are safe, and that they will not suffer because they have not believed nor suspected our Ministers to be.. the vexatious blockheads they really are. Still, we have considered it only a neighbourly act to put them ,on their guard ; for if Mr. Spring Rice, senior, of the- Treasury, should continue his financial dem,: and be preSsed for money, he may, like the prints that support him, "go the whole hog," insist upon the pc• nalties as means for rewarding the Bank Directors fcr their Exchequer-bill rig, and then our contemporaries will have brought their pigs to a fine market. In any and every case we have thought it right to give this warning to our contemporaries, daily and weekly, and in town and country.—Times. Lord Talbot, with his family, arrived at Frankfcri on the 7th inst. Yesterday's Hue and Cry and Police Gazette con tains a list of tvventy-three convicts, sentenced to various terns of expatriation, in addition to those . inserted la;.t week, making a total of sixty-one advertised during the last three weeks as having recently 'sueceeded in effected their escape from the penal colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. SHARP RETORT.—Lord Stowell would sometimes make a sharp retort. When a late celebrated Duchess ban tered the Consistory Judge, and inquired, " How his court would Manure if he himself should be guilty of •a faux pas?" lie answered,' Asith a gallantry becoming the question, " That the idea of such an embarrassing situation had only occurred to.him since he had become acquainted with her Grace."— Law. Magazine. . BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON AND ' SPORTING CHRONICLE will, on Sunday -next; the 18tli of Septeniln r, contain a beautiful Engraving of " The Doncaster Gold Cup ;" on Sunday, the !Lath inst., " A Portrait of the Winner of the Great St. Leger;" and on Sunday, the 2d - of Octo ber, an Engraving of, "The Heaton Park Cup." The price of "Bell's. Lire in London" will in future be Five Pence. No expense shall be spared, by extending the Sporting and General Intelligence of this Journal, to merit a continuance of the unexampled popularity which it has heretofore attained. Bell's Life is a large twenty folio column Journal, one-third. of 'which is devoted to Sporting - matters, with a very limited number of Advertisements. The price, only Five Pence. Can be had on Sundays 200 miles from London.—Bell's Life Office, - No. 170, Strand. DISPATCH PERMANENTLY ENLARGED, AND REDUCED IN PRICE.-On - the 18th of September the ./"... , ispatc.7:, --the most popular Journal in England, circulating 30,000 copies per week-will be enlarged to the extent allowed by the new Stamp Act, and reduced in price from 8 5 d. to 6d. It will contain 48 columns, and will be so arranged as to enab!e purchasers, without' detriment to the annual binding of this Journal in an entertaininc , and useful volume, to divide-the sheet, so as to accommodate three readers at the same time. In this alteration the proprietors give to their numerous friends mere than the entire advantage of the reduction of the Stamp Duty. That reductiOn is nominally from fourpence to one ; butlns a considerable discount has been hitherto al lowed by Government for spoilt stamps, which is now to be withheld, the real reduction is. not more than twopence far thing. While, therefore, the-proprietors of the Dispatch sub stract from the price of their Journal more than is taken from the Stamp Duty, they Will at the same time constantly give four additional pages,, In fact, subscribers will have, every week, an enlarged Dispatch for Sixpence. This Journal has long been known as the undeviating advocate of the rights of the people. Belonging to no political party, and influenced by no party considerations, it is devoted to the exposure of all abuses arid oppressions, the advancement of the great cause of freedom through the medium of moral improvement, of popu lar control, and of perfect representation; in fine, to Reform, in the most comprehensive sense of the word. The great popularity of this Journal has induced unprincipled persons ti fabricate fraudulent and worthless imitations. The Dispatch is published at 139, Fleet -street. consider Mr, Villiers justified in granting the' cover of Bri tish paper under the particular circumstances; though he would not have been if he gave the same protection lest year when M. Isturiz was a fugitive before the law. We take it that our three adversaries are equally in error. Their reasoning Las no application to the ease. liTe . st'and on the broad fact that no British Ambassador, 11Iinistc'r, or Charge d'Affaires, has a right to give a British passpOrt to any other than to a British subject. The motives of Mr.Vil lierS may be very good, but he has clearly exceeded his authority, and the consequences maybe more serious than li ,calculated on. Every Alcade Will now be justified in stopping Englishmen o❑ their road; under the pretence that_they-are Spaniards in disguise, and that their papers are fictitious. Any man who has the Sarno obliquity of vision that M. Alcala Galliano is distinguished by, may receive a serious impediment to his affairS if some village authority should fancy that he, too, like M. Isturiz, was protected by Mr. Villiers, to save him from a mob. But the reasoning is, in all senses, ridiculous.- Is not the Spa iii4ll es-Minister now a fugitive from the Government of the day? Is his flight at present not as much an el:Cape frmn' justice as it was last year, when he conspired against To ren° ? The correspondent of the Chronicle assumes a a particular knowledge of the facts. He is 'not sin . gular in that respect. The case is in a' narrow compass. M. lsturiz and the son of Calatrava were compromised together. M. Arguelles applied at. the British Legation for a passport for his friend Isturiz, and was properly refused. Calatrava took another form of application, and was met with a direct negative. Why did Mr. Villiers refuse the papers then, and why does be grant them no cv ? His friends had better admit that his gclOcl nature overpowered his judgment, for, accbrding,to the excuse they make, Lord Stuart de Rothesay should have protected Prince Polignac and the other Ministers of Charles the Tenth when they, too, were flying from a mob. Supposing Lord Stuart had g iven Prince Polignac a B r iti s h Passport, w h a t would th e Morning Chronicle have then said ? We are glad that M. Isturiz is safe from the knives of his blood-thirsty countrymen ; but Mr. Villiers, like his maste r at home, has struck a decided blow at the honour and integrity of the British name.—Morning Post. The half -yearly Court of the Proprietors of Bank of England Stock, for the purpose of agreeing to a dividend, took . place y esterday, and, as might have been anticipated, a discussion arose upon the steps recently adopted by the Directors of that corporation to reduce the aggregate amount of the currency, with a view to improve te state of the foreign exch anges , and chec the exportation of bul lion. It must have been very gratifying to, the Directors of the Bank of England t o receive,' as they did upon this occasion, from such a body as the proprietors of the stock. of that corporation, an unanimous and unequivocal testi mony in favour of their conduct. A. vote of thanks for the course the Directors have purs ue d, passed, as in this cas e , without a dissenting voice by the proprietors of Bank Stock, ought, we think, to silence the voice of censure in whatever quarter it may have been raised ; and, if it cause the accents of should fail to do so, will cert ainl y they proce e d, to b e condemnation, whencesoever disregarded alike by the Bank Directors and th e pub lic. The proprietors of Bank Stock constitute, in fact, a very fair representation of all the most important classes and interests of the mer cantile world. N o injudicious or unfair measure can be adopted_l3y the Directors, in reference to affairs of such deep a n d exten sive importance as the rate of interest or the amount of the c i rcu l a ti ng me di u m, w ithout producing an immeditae • effe c t, more or l ess i n j ur i ous , u p o n the private and personal affairs o f man y i n di v id ua l s w h o p os sess the right, and have an opport un ity p er i o di ca lly a ff or d e d them, as proprietors of Bank Stock, to demand the reasons which the Directors have to allege in vindication of their conduct, and to call upon their co-proprietors to unite with them in an expres sion of disapprobatio n if that conduct should appear to deserve it. And nothing can be more certain than that British merchants who, as proprietors of Bank Stock, possess these privileges,would exercise them in a manly,candid, and straight forward manner at the very first open Court of the Corpo ration subsequent to any proceeding on the part of the Direc • tors, by which they felt or im ag i ne d t h e i r commerc i al i nterests had suffered unfair injury, or been exposed to unnecessary danger. We have heard much of the expressions of disap probation which certain recent acts of the Bank Directors have elicited from intelligent and influential members of the mercantile body. The uncontested and unanimous vote of the Court of Proprietors of yesterday, seems to us to give to these statements the most satisfactory and explicit con tradiction. There can be no doubt, indeed, in the mind of any man who takes the trouble of thinking up on th e subject, for a moment, that some of the eminent and influ ntial merchants, were they any other than the mere crea- SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF STOLEN PROPERTY. —At Worship-street Police-office, on Tuesday, John Thomp son was charged under rather extraordinary circumstances with having stolen a considerable quantity of valuable plate (worth at least 801.), the property of his late master, Mr. Borradaile, merchant,. of No. 34, Fenchurch- s t reet, City, who has a summer residence at Walthamstow. The prisoner had lived five or six weeks in Mr. Borradaile's family as footman ; and on the evening of Friday, the 2d inst., while that gentleman was dining at a friend's in London, the prisoner carne to in form him that the plate had been stolen from the house at Walthamstow. The account which he gave was, that having occasion to go out into the neighbourhood, he was p ass i ng through the lane in the rear of the premises, when a man suddenly jumped past him over the hedge, and he heard a rattling of what he then thought to be chains. He was much alarmed at that, and still more so, when some time after his return home he missed the plate from the pantry. He thought at first that another servant might have carried it up stairs, but finding that not to be the case, had no doubt that what he had supposed to be the rattling of chains was the plate ; and he 1 ,,?t off to London to inform his master. Godwin, however, and of the Walthamstow Police, disbelieved this story, of the stoleumg took the prisoner into custody on suspicion, and he was detained for a week by Mr. Robinson, a Magistrate, but there be' prehended then no positive proof against him, or trace a lir f operty, he was discharged, and was now ap p :—About nine o'clock on Monday night, while Bowtray, o k i pzlice constable, 130 N was on duty in the n eighbourho o d pton, the prisoner passed him in the di rection of Walthamstow,ago about two miles distant, and they ght. Between twelve and one the s n a 'i m sh e e n d ig ea h c t h h o e th p e a r ssed the lli . same constable again, coming from ,tabbleeneath a large cloak that h observing that he had something but instead of doing . so . he ran off e a w t e f r u e ll cb E aul s l I s t e yd x , tuon andidi iunder mr the histo stop, t c ao o rp n r r: s speed. The constable followed, springing his rattle, and the prisoner was stoppe d by another constable, e, 113 N. A car petls bag was afterwards found on the spot, containing the stolen tne stolen plate, and the prisoner had in his possession three silk handkerchiefs belonging to Mr. Borradaile. Sergeant God win recognized the carpet bag as one which the prisoner had with him on leaving Walthamstow after his discharge out of custody last week. The plate was now found to have clay and dirt upon it, as if it had been concealed in the earth, and ',he prisoner's hauds L,ing in the same condition when he w as taken, it was supposed that the plate having been buried after the robbery, he went down on Monday 140 to disinter and carry it off. He was fully committed for teal. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1836. SURREY SESSIONS. On Wednesday John Williams, alias Joshua Hurst, late Sheriff's officer and the proprietor of a sponging-house in Cur- Fitor-street, Chancery-lane, and Henry Turner, were indicted for stealing four pint pewter pots, the property of two li censed victuallers, residing in the neighbourhood !of Cam berwell. The CHAIRMAN sentenced both the prisoners to three months' hard labour at Brixton, and cautioned them not to le Ken in that Court again. John Donovan was indicted for stealing a gold watch, chain, and seal, of considerable value, the property of Mr. Stevens, the grocer, v‘ hose house was destroyed at the late calamitous fire in Southrvark. The Jury found the prisoner guilty. The CHAIRMAN said, he should be imprisoned for nine months. WANDSWORTH PETTY SESSIONS. bert's house be looked up, and ho saw a great deal of smoke and a few sparks come out of a chimney.pot belonging to the house. In addition to this evidence the firemen► said that a great number of persons were assembled before the house at the time when the engines arrived, and they had been told by several that sparks had been seen to come out of the chimney pot. Mr. Lambert having denied that his chimney was on fire, Mr. Conant came to the determination of dismissing the case, on the ground that there was not sufficient evidence of the fire. It is a remarkable fact, that upon testimony not near so creditable a vast number of rewards, amounting to seve ral hundred pounds, are yearly given to the jobbing firemen who bring cases to this office. Wednesday Bartholomew Bernard, an officer of the Excise of this district, applied to J. Morris, Esq., the Chairman, for his permission to withdraw an information laid by him against a person named Saunders, for selling beer without a license. The MAGISTRATE asked what were the grounds of the ap plication ? The officer replied that at the very time the summons was presented at the defendant's house, he bad just breathed his last. This circumstance had been made known at the Board of Excise, and they immediately directed him to make the ap plication. The MAGISTRATE said, under the circumstances they could have no objection to the information being withdrawn. A man named Thompson appeared to answer a summons issued at the instance of the Right Hon. Charles John Earl Spencer, for unlawfully trespassing upon Wimbledon-common, and cutting furze, the property of that Nobleman, who is Lord of the Manor. The defendant was ordered to pay the amount of the damage and the costs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Wednesday an ostler, named George _Harwood, was brought before Mr. Alderman ATKINS, charged with having knocked down and severely hurt a man whose name did not transpire. J. Edgar said the injury was caused by accident. The man and the prisoner were " larking," as it is termed. After sparring for a moment the man who is now in the hospital struck the hat off the head of the prisoner, who returned a blow which knocked him down with his head on the hearth. The man was stunned, and was carried in an insensible state to the hospital. It was a momentary frolic kicked up in the tap of the Black Horse, in Goswell-street. The policeman observed that the injured man had expressed a desire that morning that the prisoner should be released, as he did not intend to do him harm. Mr. Alderman ATKINS should remand the prisoner till Friday. Yesterday a young woman named Harriet Jane Edwards, aged 20, was brought before Mr. Alderman ATKINS, having been given in custody by her father, for running away from her home at Winchester. The father, a respectable man, and in years, stated that she absconded from home about a month ago, and he had been in quiring and searching for her in the greatest distress of mind ever since. That morning he met with her in Fleet-street, walking with an abandoned woman who resided in Winches ter, and who had poisoned the minds of several girls in the country with tales about the gay living in town, and had thereby seduced them 'ol?ave their homes. n" - An officer stated that this appeared to be an increasing e%il. A waggoner was lately detected in bringing up fine looking healthy country girls, «nd selling them at a certain place. Mr. Alderman ATKINS had no doubt this was true, for a similar case had come to his knowledge in Kent. Several girls had been kidnapped from Maidstone and the vicinity, by a woman who travelled thither from a town in Surrey, which he would not name. I-Ic inquired whether the girl had ever run away from home before. The father said no. Fier conduct had been irreproachable up to this act of unaccountable folly. Mr. Alderman ATKINS desired her to go out and speak with her father. They retired, and in a few minutes they returned again, and the father said she had now expressed her readiness to go back with him. Mr. Alderman ATKINS gave her joy of her decision. The prisoner, who was a fine-looking young woman, was thou given up to the care of her father. BOW-STREET. Four persons, one a walking tobacconist named So/ornans, another a French-polisher named Jones, the third a sweep named Blackman, and the fourth a young woman named Smith, were placed at the bar, charged by a policeman of the F divi sion with fighting in Holborn, at eleven, Wednesday nia.ht, and creating a great disturbance for more than ten minutes. Mr. Solomons and Mr. Jones were very decently clad, but the latter bore strong testimony to the (not in his case) figurative expression of "fighting with a sweep," for his hands and face were so begrimed with soot that he might have been mistaken for the master of Blackman, who was as thorough-bred a " chummy" as ever rattled his brush in a " chimley-pot." 'The facts of the case were as follows :—The tobacconist and French-polisher were walking down Holborn, and as they passed Miss Ellen Smith, she siid something to them, which they resented, and the sweep hearing his friend insulted—for so it appeared Miss Smith was—like a true knight of the brush, turned-back, took up the cudgels for his lady-love, or, in other words, nearly blinded his antagonist by showering the contents of his soot-bag into their faces, and for a time put an end to the dispute. As soon, however, as they recovered from their temporary blindness, they set to work and pum melled the sweep, who was not slow to return the blows with interest, being a bigger and stronger man than either the to bacconist or the French-polisher, and, having the advantage of Miss Ellen Smith's assistance, gave them a sound drub bing. The matter ended in the four prisoners at the bar being marched off to the station-house, the friends of both parties having made their escape as soon as they saw that there was some danger of getting► a night's lodging in the station-house. Mr: Mmsnunn ordered them all to find bail. Yesterday John Gillon, a stout-made young man, in the em ployment of Mr. Warren, the blacking-maker in the Strand, was charged by Mr.. Charles Neville Smith, a merchant, re siding in Howard-street, with having been found concealed in his kitchen on the previous night, under circumstances of rather a questionable nature as regarded the chastity of his cook, Louisa Fairfield, a sprightly, buxom young woman, who kept aloof during the examination of her lover, and appeared ex tremely anxious to learn the result. At half-past 11 on the preceding night, as Mr. Smith was about to retire to rest, he fancied he heard a sort of sup pressed giggle, which appeared to proceed from the kitchen ; and, listening more attentively, he was convinced that his cook had smuggled in a man, and not knowing what the object of the intruder might be, he considered it wise to cane a police constable and search the kitchen for the unbidden guest. Ac cordingly, having procured a police-constable, they proceeded on tip-toe down stairs into the kitchen, and found the cook in bed apparently ill a sound slumber. The constable observed, however, that that the bed had all the appearance of another person having lain in it ; and his suspicions were further con firmed by discovering a shoe of such dimensions that it could not be mistaken for a lady's slipper. He then proceeded to a cupboard in the kitchen, and there, upon opening the door, he found the prisoner in his shirt doubled up like Falstaff in the buck-basket, and, to all appearance, as un comfortably stowed as was the amorous Knight by the joint contrivance of the merry wives of Windsor. At this moment the fair Louisa started up, uttering a piercing cry, as if aroused from her slumbers by some unpleasant dream, and the love sick maker of blacking was rather unceremoniously told to dress himself forthwith, and prepare to exchange the comfort of the cook's bed for the less congenial atmosphere of a cell in the station-house, to which abode he was marched off, as soon as he huddled on his outward habiliments. The prisoner, when asked what be had to say for himself, declared that he had been fur some time paying his addresses to the young woman. Mr. Smith—Yes, and I believe you were also paying your addresses to the cupboard. Mr. HALLS called upon him to put in bail to answer any charge that might be preferred against him at the Sessions. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Wednesday the proprietors of Goding's:Ale Brewery, Broad street, Golden-square, were summoned before Mr. CHAMBERS, for objecting to pay the reward to those firemen who attended with their engines to put out an alleged fire in one of the brewery chimneys. The firemen proved that an alarm of fire was given, and that they brought their engines to the brewery. When they arrived there they saw some sparks come out of a high chim ney belonging to the brewery, but they did not see any flame. The engines were not set to work, there being no occasion for their use; nor, in fact, could they have been of any service had the chimney been on fire in reality, as it was 40 or 50 feet higher than the other part of the building. A gentleman from the brewery denied that any fire had oc curred in the chimney. It was a very great hardship to be called upon for the usual reward under such circumstances, and more particularly as the firm had very recently submitted to pay the amount for a similar case, and they were liable to be called upon every day to do the same thing. Mr. CHAMBERS remarked that he did not see how he could refuse to give the reward to the firemen, it having been de cided on appeal to the Sessions, that they were entitled to it if it could be proved th at sparks' had been seen to issue from the chimney. The proprietors of the brewery must know this, as they had on one occasion appealed against the decision, and the Sessions had confirmed the award. The gentleman from the brewery replied it was true that the late Mr. Goding had appealed, and had lost the cause, but that was many years ago, and since then, in compliance with the provisions of the Act of Parliament, the chimneys had been raised to a height which precluded all likelihood of dan ger. It would be impossible to carry on business if they were to be summoned every time a few sparks were seen, or if the system adopted by the firemen was to be tolerated. Mr. CHAMBERS said, with the decision of the Sessions be fore him, he was obliged to award the reduced amount (about 405.); but he was of opinion, if an app ea l was presen t e d, a nd all the circumstances stated, that his de c i s i on wou ld p er h a ps be reversed. The lowest reward was then adjudged. A case analogous to the above met with a different fate last Monday. It was as follows :—A lad, the son of a respectable tradesman in Sherrard•street, was called to prove that Mr. Lambert's chimney, in Coventry-street, was on fire. The lad said he saw the engines proceeding towards the fire, and he ran along with them. When they stopped bipre Mr, Lam- ifARYLEBONE. Wednesday the following distressing case was gone into be fore the sitting Magistrate, Mr. RAWLINSON :.—A well-dressed widow, of very lady-like manners, about 35 years of age, and who gave her name M‘Leod, was brought up in custody and placed at the bar, charged with having robbed her ready-fur nished lodging in Great Barlow -street, near this office, of two blankets and a sheet, the property of Mr. Bromley, who stated that about three weeks ago the prisoner, accompanied by her daughter, a little girl, eight or ten years of age, engaged an apartment of him, at the same time representing that she was a widow lady, and had just arrived from Gravesend. She had not paid any rent ; and, on Mrs. B. going into the room yesterday morning, she missed the articles in question, which it was soon after ascertained had been pledged by the prisoner at the shop of Mr. Walter, Marylebone-street, for ss. In reply to the Magistrate, the prisoner, who was absorbed in grief, said that she had been driven by the direst distress to the commission of the offence. Her late husband was for many years an indigo-planter at Bengal, and was the friend and companion of many wealthy merchants. About two years back he died in indigent circumstances, and she then, toge ther with her child, came over, in the hope of dwelling with some relations in Scotland. After a little time she left them, being unwilling to burthen them with her support, and walked up to London, expecting that she should be able, by teaching music and drawing, to gain a respectable livelihood ; but in this she was doomed to be disappointed, owing to the want of friends to afford her introduction in the proper quarter. The worthy MAGISTRATE said it appeared to be a most dis! tressing :case, and kindly handed over five shillings to the pawnbroker, when the articles were delivered over to Mr. Bromley, who had no wish whatever to prosecute. Q UEEN- S QUARE. Wednesday James Whitelaw, a waterman, who up to the present charge has borne an irreproachable character, was finally examined before Messrs. BURRELL. and So OTT, charged with having broken open a storehouse in Old Palace-yard, and stolen a quantity of carpenter's tools, ironmongery, and a pair of handsome window curtains, the property of the Commis sioners of Woods and Forests. The prisoner, in defence, said that he plied at Palace-yard stairs, and was coming from the water, after making his boat fast, when he was taken into custody. The Magistrates fully committed him to Newgate for trial. Several respectable persons attended to give him a cha racter, and it was stated that he had been for many years in the navy, and bad served in the Glasgow frigate at the battle of Navarino, where he had been severely wounded in the head, from the effects of which, upon drinking, he had been induced to commit many intemperate acts. Mr. liummatEs, on the part of the prisoner, applied to the Magistrates to be allowed a copy of the depositions, which he said he was entitled to under an Act passed at the close of the last session of Parliament. The application was immedi ately granted. Four Irishmen, named Buckley, Collins, Murphy, and Carthy, were charged with stealing a quantity of timber from the premises now erecting upon the site of the ancient Cock-pit, in St. James's-park, so celebrated in the annals of the reign of Charles the Second. This site of ground for a great number of years has lain dormant, until lately purchased by Mr. Under-Sheriff Pearson from the Governors of Christ's Hospital. Mr. Webb, a builder, stated that neither Buckley nor the other men had any right to take away any of the property,— it was worth 6d. per foot, and was nearly new, and it appeared that the prisoners were about to sell the whole of it to Drake for 2s. 9d., to cut up for firewood. They were all fined in the penalty of 205., or to be com mitted for ten days to Tothill-fields. A remarkably pretty girl, only 15 years of age, and who ap peared to be completely unsophisticated, was yesterday charged before Messrs. BURRELL and WHITE with being found in an insensible state of drunkenness in the Westminster-road, at 11 o'clock on Wednesday night. Inspector King, of the L divi sion, said that her name was Rebecca Henderson, and that she was the daughter of an industrious labouring man, residini , at Thames Ditton, Surrey. About a week since she had been induced to leave her home by a man, named Chalmers, a bricklayer, who had been sent from London to work at a building at Thames Ditton. He promised her marriage when they came to London, and said that Ile had provided lodgings for her in Westminster. She came with him upon this promise, and she resided with him for two days. He then left her, and she was shortly afterwards visited by an old woman, who per suaded her to take a walk over Westminster-bridge for the benefit of the "fresh air." This woman conducted her to An sell's gin-palace, near the Marsh-gate, Lambeth: where she gave her a quantity of gin, which had such an effect upon her that she was discovered by Police-constable Cockercll stretched in the road, completely insensible. The fiend who bad en deavoured to lead her further into crime disappeared. The MAGISTRATES told her that they would upon this occa sion remit the usual penalty for drunkenness, upon her under taking to returns home. She expressed her gratitude to the Magistrates in terms which evinced that she bad received a better education than might have been expected, and left the office, after receiving assistance from several individuals who had heard her case. LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday, J. Nott, a man about sixty years of age, with a Bard°lph-like countenance, who it is said not only enjoys a handsome pension from the East India Company, but holds a lucrative situation in their docks, was brought before BOYCE COMBES, Esq., and two county magistrates, by Lea the officer, on a warrant, charging him with assaulting and Musing his wife. Mrs. Nett, who had formerly been the widow of Captain Strange, and who was obliged, from the effects of the brutal treatment which she had experienced, to be brought to the office in a coach, and was accommodated with a chair while giving her evidence, entered into a somewhat lengthy state ment of the ill usage of her husband since the time she had been married to him-. It was evident, she said, that the de fendant had married her merely for the sake of her property, and after dissipating that he treated her most brutally. On Friday last she, being in fear from the threats he had made use of in the course of that day, had herself locked up in her bed-chamber to avoid his ven2 - eance, but he bur: the door open, and having heated the bowls of two tobacco-pipes by the candle until they were quite red, applied them to her face, bands, arms, and different parts of her body, producing in each place a large wound. While engaged in this mode of torture, he stuffed a portion of her shawl into her mouth, to prevent her crying out, and subsequently dragged her out of bed, and beat her violently with a stick. The defendant, 'who conducted himself in a very strange manner, and who described himself as a banker, a scholar, and a gentleman, said, in reply to the charge, that about ten months ago he had been regularly crimped into a marriage with the cormlainant, whom he wished to God he had never seen. Mr. CONILES—Do you deny having burned your wife in the manner she has described? Defendant—Certainly I do. Mr. ComnEs—Then how do you account for the severe in juries she has received ? Defendant—She must have done it herself. She gets drunk, and smokes a short pipe, commonly called a doodeen. _ _ Mr. COMBES (to the complainant)—How long have you been married to this person? About ten months. Mr. COMBES—You say he married you for your money. What has he done with the money ? Complainant—l do not know, Sir; I dare not ask him. . _ . MAGISTRATE—You have said that you were crimped into a marriage with this poor woman? Defendant—Yes; and I think I was perfectly justified in saying so. I was seduced into it by her putting on an assumed appearance and showing me a handful of sovereigns.—( Laughter.) Mr. COMBES here read the following letter, addressed by the defendant to the complainant, previous to their marriage, which excited a good deal of laughter:— " October 9, 1835. " My dear Strange—To come to the finale of our intimacy I propose the following resolution, which is only an echo of your own :—I will take thee for better or worse ; though I did not intend to marry again ; but your domestic behaviour induces me to conclude you will make a desirable wife. I consider I am equal to you in many respects, having a provi sion for life, and as to encumbrances, I have many to get rid of, and many already gone ; to meet you on your own terms, if you will, for a few weeks, advance me 151. to make me comfortable, and see you as a gentleman, and be enabled to introduce you, with myself in decent apparel. You know too much of me to think I mean deception. No, it is not in my nature to be fraudulent. Let me have the loan for a few weeks, and I will repay you. Publish the banns of marriage on Monday, where you please. I will endeavour to become a fond, a domestic companion. Take me on my present propo sal, or discharge me for ever. I shall expect every secresy on both parts, and the world shall not know for a long time to come. If you agree bring with you my request, that you may dine with my son-in-law, or I dine with you on Sunday, and we will arrange under the Divine blessing our future plans. I will see you at four o'clock till five, at the Mulberry Tree, Stepney-green, when I shall expect you; and on the present decision rests, whether I tihall lead a single life or live to bless you. I conclude, " Your very affectionate friend and lover, J. NOTT." Addressed to Mrs. Strange, No. 1, Ocean-street, Stepney. Mr. COMBES (to the complainant)—Did you lend hire the fifteen pounds ? Complainant—Yes, Sir. Mr. Commis—And has he ever paid it back ? Defendant —Yes ; I paid ten pounds of it back. Complainant—Not a single farthing, Sit. A respectable witness deposed to the cruelty of the defen dant towards his wife. Mr. CoMnEs should order him to enter into security to keep the peace towards his wife for twelve months. The defendant not being prepared with the necessary secu rities, was locked up, and the wife being assisted into a coach, was driven home. _ Wednesday :14;zria Smith, a very good-looking and smartly dressed young woman, Was brought before JOHN HARDINICK, Esq., and a county Magistrate, on a charge ,of having pawned various articles from her furnished apartments. Mr. Ward, a tradesman residing in Wellington -street, Step ney, stated that about eight weeks ago the prisoner came to live in a ready-furnished apartment in his house, and not the slightest suspicion was entertained of her honesty until Sun day morning last, when it was discovered that during the pre ceding night she had absconded from the house, and that va rious articles of property were missing from her apartments. Though she was to have been married to a young man who paid her his addresses on the Sunday, nothing was heard of her on that day or the next, but on Tuesday afternoon a po liceman succeeded in apprehending her, and she at once ac knowledged to have pawned the property. The prisoner, in defence, said that she had been compelled to pledge the things to maintain the young man to whom she had been about to have been married, he being out of employ ment, and being unable to redeem them before the fact of her having pawned them must have been discovered, she thought it best to leave the place at once. The manner in which the prisoner had delivered her defence was such as to lead every person present to believe that her statement was true, and the Magistrates consented to her being discharged, provided she could make up a sum sufficient to take the goods out of pawn, and its being ascertained that she had spoken the truth. At a later period of the day she was again plain placed within the bar, before the Magistrates ; and from the statements then made, her case appeared in a very different light, and her conduct most heartless and profli gate. It appeared that a young man of very good character, named James Peate, who had been a sailor, had for some time past paid his addresses to her, and had not only been in the habit of taking his meals with her, but handing over to her safe keeping nearly the whole of his wages. Peate, with the consent of the prisoner, ultimately put up the banns at Hack ney Church, and Sunday last was appointed for their union. The intended husband, whose kindness and attention were most remarkable, had purchased a handsome wedding dress, a costly ring, and everything necessary for the occasion, and had been with her the whole of Saturday evening, making preparations for the following day, and when ho had parted with her, handed her half a sovereign. On the follow. ing morning he came to the house with a few friends of his own, as well as of the prisoner's, for the pur pose of proceeding to Hackney Church, there to be mar ried, but the prisoner was nowhere to be found ; and on inquiry it appeared that she bad left the house shortly after twelve o'clock on the preceding night, and did not re turn again. Information of the circumstance was communi cated a policeman; and, after much trouble, he succeeded in apprehending the prisoner in a common brothel in Vinegar lane, St. George's in the East. From inquiries made it seems that she came there on Saturday night, and brought with her two ducks and other things, which had been provided by her intended husband for the wedding dinner. Those she had cooked on Sunday, and had an omnibus driver, whom it ap peared she preferred to the sailor, and other persons to dine with her and enjoy themselves, while poor Peate was almost in a distracted state for her loss. It further appeared that she had pledged every article of wearing apparel belonging to her lover, and had also disposed of the wedding ring as well as the wedding-suit. The MAGISTRA'rES on hearing these facts, convicted her in the penalty of 21. 10s., the amount for which the things pawned were pledged for, together with 10s. additional, or one month's imprisonment in the House of Correction. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday having been appointed for the final examination of William Alfred, on various charges of felony, a turnkey, belonging to the New Prison, attended at the office, with a certificate, stating that the prisoner was in so dangerous a state in the infirmary of the prison, that he could not be brought up. Mr. LAING—What ails him? Turnkey—He is in a con firmed consumption. He cannot take the least sustenance, and his bones are actually protruding through his skin. Mr. LAING said it was very extraordinary. He appeared to be in that state at Worship-street, when Mr. Grove was in duced to relieve him, and order an officer to see him set down by an omnibus, in the neighbourhood of Battle-bridge, where he said he had friends ; but he was sufficiently well and strong enough to proceed, the moment after he was put down, to two different places, and commit robberies. He (Mr. Laing) had an impression that he was practising a cunning deception by assuming illness. The turnkey said if that were the case the prisoner was per forming his part so cleverly that every body in the place was imposed upon ; he was so wasted away that he did not expect to sec him alive on his return to the prison. Mr. LAING then ordered that the examination should be postponed until Monday next, and, if possible, the prisoner be brought before him. TVORSHIP-STREET. Ellen Derry alias Ellen Dacey, an Irishwoman, of fresh complexion, was placed at the bar, before Mr. GROVE, charged with robbing Mrs. Bartholomew, landlady of the Weavers' Arms, Brown-lane, Spitalfields. The prisoner was remanded for a week. CORONER'S INQUEST. On Tuesday night an inquest was held before Mr. BAKER, Coroner, at the White Horse public-house, Ratcliffe, on the body of Mr. George Otter, jun., aged 31 years, who was sup posed to have committed suicide. George Shilcock, clerk to the deceased, said his late master was an auctioneer, broker, and rent collector, and resided in Broad-street. He had been in his employ 13 months. On the evening of Monday, the sth instant, he was sent by his master with a receipt for 6/., which he wrote in his presence, to receive that amount of rent. He observed nothing remark able in Mr. Otter's conduct at the time. He returned in about two hours to the house, and rung the bell several times, but obtaining no answer, he became alarmed and got in at the window, by means of a ladder. On proceeding up stairs into his master's bed-room he found him lying dressed on his bed, and his face covered with blood. He asked the deceased what was the matter with him, and he said he had been wounded with a pistol; there was a candle and candlestick on the floor—the light appeared to have been extinguished. He instantly left the house to procure assistance and returned with Mr. Hunter, an auctioneer of Limehouse, who was staying at a neighbouring house. There was a great quantity of blood on the floor when he entered the apartment. He saw no pistol at that time, but one was soon afterwards found on the bed which appeared to have been recently discharged. The deceased, who conversed in the most rational manlier, said he was about to fire the pistol into the yard, when he heard the bell ring, and was about to lay the pistol down, when his foot slipped and it went off accidentally. The wound was on the right temple, which appeared to have been perforated with a pistol shot. The witness underwent a long examination by the Coroner and Jury as to the state of the deceased's mind. He said he never observed any thing extraordinary in Mr. Otter's con duct, or any indication of a disordered mind. He had met with no losses in business whatever. . The CORONER— Can you form an opinion from what you saw and heard, that your master's statement was correct ? Witness—l think he spoke the truth. believe the pistol did go off accidentally as he described. Mr. Hunter, auctioneer, was called into the house on Mon day night, about ten o'clock, and found Mr. Otter in the situa tion described by the last witness. He was in Mr. Otter's company on the day previous. He was then lively and cheer fiil, in his appearance which could lead him to , andsuppose nothinglabouring und er d erangemen t. h e sawhe was The CORONER remarked on the extraordinary nature of the case. It certainly did appear singular that the pistol should have gone off in the way stated, and the ball accidentally lodge in such a vital part. They had however, the statement of the duceased made to three witnesses, that the pistol went off while he was falling, and he had made the same declaration when he was in articulo mortis. He could see no other con clusion the Jury could come to, than a verdict that the deceased accidentally shot himself. After some discussion among the Jury, they agreed to the following verdict :—" That the deceased, George Otter, died from the effects of a pistol-shot wound, stated by himself to have been accidentally inflicted while falling." The CORONER said that was the best verdict the Jury could have returned under the circumstances ; and the Court then broke up. There is at present in Greenwich College a cat that is 23 years of age.—Mirror. ENGLISH IN FRANCE.—From an official return that has been made to the Prefet de Police at Paris, up to the 25th ult., by the Prefets and Sous-Prefets in the depart ments and leading towns, of the number of foreigners at pre sent in France, the following is about the number of English over here, viz. :—Paris, Versailles, St. Cloud, St. Germain's, and environs, 20,000 to 25,000 ; Boulogne-sur-Mer and envi rons, 10,000 to 12,000; Calais, the Bass Ville, and environs, 5,000 to 7,000 ; St. Omer, Cassel, and environs, 1,000 to 1,500 ; Dunkirk, Bergues, and environs, 1,500 to 2,000 ; Dieppe, Havre, Rouen, Caen, Tours, Marseilles, Bordeaux, &c., 6,000 to 7,000. Total, about 54,500. This does not include the number of continental tourists who pass annually through France to Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the Rhino, Belgium, and other parts, of which no official return is pub lished by the Minister of the Interior or police authorities. The William Darley arrived here from Hamburg on Tuesday, after a very boisterous passage. She left Ham burg on Sunday, and had on board upwards of twenty respecta ble passengers, amongst whom were Mons. Horace Vernet, a courier from St. Petersburg, with despatches to Paris, who had lost his passage by the Havre boat from Hamburg, and the Marquis de Pina, one of the most distinguish e d Fr e nch a rtists of the day. Both expressed their entire approbation of the speed and convenience of the vessel. —Hull Observer. The Act passed in the last Session to assimilate the law of Scotland to that of England, " by fixing the standard qualities of standard gold and silver plate, and to provide for the assaying and working thereof, will come into operation on the Ist of next month. The marks to be used at the Edin burgh Assay-office are the King's head, the thistle, a castle, and a letter, to be varied annually, but for the present to be D, in old English. On Tuesday information was received at the different London police offices that, about nine o'clock on Saturday evening, a man, named Daniel Sheldrake, servant to J. N. Wheelwright, Esq., of Little Hyde, Little Bradfield, Essex, while passing through a gateway in his master's grounds, lead ing from the high road, and a short distance from a farmhouse, he was tripped up by a rope which had been placed across the footpath, by which he was thrown on his face, with his gun under him, when four men immediately rushed from a nool, in the road, where they had been hiding, who, after beating him severely, held him down and r obbed him of a valuable silver watch, gold seals and key, five shillings in silver, and a double barrelled gun, with percussion lock, maker's name " M. Bar nett," with which, before he could recover himself, they suc ceeded in effee,ing their Fruc, the tlarkhes of the night he is unable to give any description of the villains. A reward of 201. has been offered by Mr. Wheelwright for their apprehension. THE HUSBAND OF TWO WIV A few mornings since the surveyor of a Thames line galley, named White, and his boat's crew, trl. u l rowing about the river neat' Westminster -bridge, 117 their attention called to a disturbance on shire hilly boy (a vessel with one mast. \ iYi n g °ff. • the shire fa' Horseferi - y, and in proceeding to the spot liOr male on board calling loudly for assistance. 06_4. manding the cause of this disturbance at such Ol e seasonable hour the woman pointed to another fall o u ts of considerable personal attractions, whose gall o f board a Yor e were loosely thrown over her shoulders, and begg.eu.ted the officers to remove " that hussey, who had s A man, Pir l away the affections of her lawful husband." the captain of the vessel, who had nothing o n but 1: night clothes, and who appeared to have been most verely punished, put his head above the cabin e ntranu d and seemed in a state of great fright. He said -he had been half-murdered by his wife, who was in a state much excitement. The officers went on board °tic ascertained that the Captain of the vessel, a gig. aP ts , Yorkshireman, had left Hull with his vessel l e a week previous, and forgetting the allegiance he ow nd to his better half, who remained at home to superinte ag her family and household offices, he took withhWhuith his companion for the voyage a young woman :ife whom he had been a short time acquainted. Th e veg e by some means discovered the infidelity of h er ''' t ' e a lord, and determined on vengeance, immediately sty t he for London in the coach, and arrived here about Doer who time as her husband and the frail f air ° e ; who little dreamt of the storm that was impendi n g ber their heads. The enraged wife hearing that 10 husband's vessel had gone up the river, an a nd moored off the Horseferry, she engaged a heat', the having been rowed alongside the vessel found that, guilty pair had retired to rest about an hour pre vi' b in, She proceeded cautiously and silently into the y ea dis , when her worst fears were'realised. The " gay looked rio" and his frail companion were fast asleep , l e ho ve in each other's arms ; the Yorkshireman and his ` n o anzie thus caught in fiogrante delicto, receive' oro . mercy from the injured wife, who immediately righ t menu(' belabouring the u n fo r tu n at e couple inn their good style before they had time to recover from: ou t surprise, or defend themselves. The wife rie% t s ilst such hard blows, and made such good use of he r : ere ct that her husband and the young woman were e e ; s ee, with bruises and scratches ; and having, in her re. torn torn their night clothes from their persons, th e y seined a most ridiculous figure. The wife of ir victorious ; and after the officers came on hoer'' the sistcd on her rival leaving the vessel, and giving uP ilsrl place she had usurped. The husband w as :the enough to make peace with his wife, and ge l :or female whom he had brought from Hull three ',.the reigns, at the same time requesting of Whi t 6 a the Thames Police Surveyor, to put her on boar steamer, and send her back to Yorkshire. She' her about to leave the vessel, when her affection l b °l. of countryman countryman getting the better of her prudence , s' e rflit ) her arms round his neck, and began kissing l'i m ' e d the fury of the wife was again roused, and she ee' z '„, : ilice young woman and forced her headlong into the r galley which put her ashore. s pO° PIRACY AND GALLANT DEFEN DP „ 0 r '' On the 2d of February the Lady Grant, W i s . ol tacked by no less than five Malay praos off L tb ° , rar. The praos were observed standing out Ire 0 0 0 Stambalongs, and, as the wind fell light, they l i tt their sails and rowed towards the Lady Gran': Oil,' observing their approach, Captain Jeffrey fired Ad" Oleic when they hoisted the black flag and redoub le pit' exertions to get at the schooner. She, howel ( 10° ing advantage of a light breeze that sprung ups the await the onset, but glided away and left theta s ool l darkness of the evening out of sight. The nl°° c lir after rose, when the wind died away and left th e o e per again at the mercy of the pirates, or rather , r th e defensive resources of her crew. Happily °ale opium underwriters these were not wanting, o ' l Aoff able commander determined on coming to an a n d s with a spring on his cable. Ab ou t t en o'clock t he rerli were observedlight a-head, pulling quickly buts / 7•0 1 ° for the schooner. A sma ll piece on the foreca beo immediately fi re d at them, on which they yelled' the their tom-toms, and continued pulling towa rd ar t schooner. C a pt a i n J e ff rey , i n t h e mean time, by t roo f,h j sistance of th e spr i ng on hi s ca bl e , had the Lady Grant's broadside to bear upon theoeli kept up a cons t ant ( an d, f rom t h e resu lt, a 11 0 00 (5 0 rected) fire, the guns being ably served by th e 1 11 and seven British seamen, shipped as cunn iesl o lo l rest of the crew were Bengalee and Chuttatat'gdid 11 cars, of whom some showed fight, and some 5 0 14 0 show th emse l ves at a ll on the o c c asion. The„de the 0 who seems to have acquired more of the laalslWert the courage of Englishmen, is said to have ' l eo , f e o his hands and exclaimed, " Oh, we are done) t!, are now five of them." He, however, with. t "rolll of the gang, assisted (piteously enough) e $ d' back the shouts of defiance with which t he n iv s o always approach. The largest prao cam e ci pe arli t i; vance ; this vessel, Captain Jeffrey says, vva s „ tbs io large as the Lady Grant, and so full of M e "! Os was supposed it was the intention of the c t i r g fro 1: carry the clipper by a coup de main on bo 3 r ic alst o the vessel. They had in this instance riled g, it a ', o for being now within pistol-shot, the rour ip' ,o I rw o s and canister from the Lady Grant drove thessel.:ll; their sweeps to take shelter below, and theiojor.iloso allowed to drift away with the tide. Before do) he the Lady Grant had weighed, and made stt o of t increasing breeze, and nothing more was se e pirates.--Bombay Gazette. - fired te sts A certain clergyman, who lives not a 1 1110 ,,,,. Of t wo from the burgh of Wick, en being informed the et .t " - tbot/ 5 2 011 Councillor Russell, from Edinburgh, had arrive d . ..7' 4 oo, i " by the steamer, surprised and indignant at the iot`""exe` s „ fo r an enemy to the Church or, these northern s hores plitcloor to his informant that the Calton gaol was too goe sCoul the him, and that if h e h a d h a d hi s w ill of it, the ' pe v i should hav e b een , not i mpr i sone d mere ly, but hal l t o bjg Rev. Mr. is to be considered as embodying 'g r . P; (0 1 0 son the spiri t of the c l e rgy of the dominant sec t ' n opili s ac ° , may thank the " spirit of the times" that t h° 1 0 101 3 ,. b eit/ which he had to endure as the penalty for n° l3 so i o l ll , with their demands, was the deprivation of Pe r only, and not of his life. —Scotsman. (ADVERTISEMENT.) F QRKSe f DESSERT FRUIT KNIVES AND „0 as Floc- - des. ,c 8 • steetoia 6 0 9 CPalarivnedlvivooryrybia,annddlelses,,s.islivhe,errfeferrrunlieles,peprerdodzocznenpapireg, 14 s 0! Plain pearl handles, silver ferrule , , per dozen pair... 0 0,40 Carved pearl handles, silver ferrules, per dozen pair 0 6 King's pattern or Queen's pattern, silver handles ••• itbf Thill,Plate, PistP" N.B. A detailed list of the prices of Silver ORY, Working Gold and Si lvergn * L C on O d X on. SAV &c. may be had gratis. rod, tri vi BIRTH. On the 14th inst., the wife of Mr. John Geary, °- f Dept 7 Camberwell, of a son. P litt AfP,., MARRIED. , 1,0, 1 ,0. On the 10th inst., at Christ Church, Mantle" - ouv Mickleburgh, of Catherine llall, Cambridge, to Sara h ' Tolle:, ter of Lieut.-Col. Hunt, of Weimer. ei 00 04 On the 13th inst., at Hampstead Church, Sao° % f e lla , o f Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, barrister -at-law, to Elizabeth ' •te, igh t e ter of M. Hetherington, Esq. Mr. i & te On the 13th inst., at Rot herham, Yorkshire, i t he ~,0 Kennet-wharf, London, to E liza, thir d daughter 4: 9 ,0, ery l ye Beatson, Esq., of the form er p lace. li r iledfof On the 14th inst., at St. Andrew's, Holbor n : v et , 944 youngest son of James Mansfield, Esq., of JohlL a rosf , ,Air row, to Katherine Walford, widow of the late J. 'r pin., North Brixton. h Tb°sllss Lien On the 13th inst ,at St. Marylebone Ch ure-'„idovf 0f /41. ston, Esq., of Welbeck-street, to Mary Esther , .. iojo i si te risr at Battersea Church, Re c. " o f L'' t rott — S, sstj" D o t er General o n the el3t h Armstrong. i n sinst., , cholson, to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas fr Vv te r ham-common. Mies te r,eiee s of On the 12thinst., at Holt Church, Wimbourn,e 0 .00, `" 04' shire, the Rev. W. Ackworth, A.M. o f Cossieu i ner , shire, to Harriet, eldest daughter of the late Clifton. Jo' i.--1' On the 13th inst., in the 9 j t?i i y E ea n r o ' f his age , 14 _ 0 the r ain, Esq., of Lansdown-place' eine, tows of W. D. J ou d • g On le Bth inst., at Hounslow, Harriett, the N' , 133 42 Peisiey.' Lim b ~, inst., 27' Holliefevr:ligr. d On tho 15th of . April, at Ellore, Circars, acedolllo - Girand, of the 22d Madras Native InfantrY.,. P f P On the 14th aged ^ 1 Thomas „ ii` r street, Clapham-road. , pie - On the sth inst., Mr. W. Woods, of the Castle 0" o f the et.t °l. tel, Aldersgate-street.fourth da. a ° On the 12th inst., at Dorchester, Fanny, „ Ao re. ~ late E. Shirley, Esq., of Eatington Park, Wrvri.....o'/-,-f 101; ,11 0 ' 0 2 0 London: Printed and Published by MURDO ' I in the 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 11'2 , Ste en( ' sr, 3r. Bartlett, of Middlesex: —Friday, September 16, 1836• I